Doughty Street Chambers

Criminal Law and Appeals

Isabella Forshall is a specialist criminal practitioner who listens carefully to clients and reflects their instructions with well-honed trial and appellate skills.

With long experience of defending in serious criminal cases, particularly of politically motivated offending from terrorism to protest; and of homicide and serious sexual offending, Isabella acts for clients ranging from the most intelligent and demanding to the most vulnerable. Terrorism cases have concerned the Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front, IRA, DHKPC, the Tamil Tigers, Al Qaeda and the PKK.

Protest clients include those accused in major public disorders from Tottenham via Yarlswood to Burnley, animal rights activists, fitness fanatic and prison hostage-taker, Charles Bronson, and serial urban nudist Vincent Bethell.
Homicide clients include parents charged with killing their children, young alleged gang members, and mentally disordered offenders.

She is also exceptionally experienced in serious sexual cases.

She is listed in Chambers and Partners and the Legal 500.

Year of Call: 1982; Gray’s Inn; KC 2010.

French Italian Spanish

Liberty

Amnesty

Howard League

Criminal Bar Association

Newnham College, Cambridge – BA English Literature

Manchester Polytechnic – CPE

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